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Jonathan Soros is a prominent liberal donor. The son of liberal finance billionaire and political donor George Soros, Jonathan spent many years managing his father’s varied financial interests,1 and in
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Alan Patricof is a Democratic donor and fundraiser. He made his fortune as a pioneer in venture capitalism and private equity firms.1 He has been a strong supporter of Bill and Hillary Clinton, contributing
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The Searle Freedom Trust is a private foundation created by Daniel C. Searle, chief executive officer with G.D. Searle, a pharmaceutical company. The trust, which primarily funds center-right public policy organizations, is scheduled to terminate in 2025. Daniel C. Searle Daniel C. Searle was the great-grandson of Gideon Daniel Searle,
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The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation is a major private grantmaking foundation based in Milwaukee. The foundation’s reported net assets totaled approximately $893 million as of December 31, 2017, and it approved a net of about $33.5 million in grant contributions for charitable purposes that year.
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The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (EMKF) is a major philanthropic foundation primarily focused in the Kansas City area. EMKF funds some left-of-center groups and a few right-of-center groups, including the Competitive Enterprise Institute. EMKF has more than $2.5 billion in assets.
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The Ed Foundation is the creation of Jeff Sandefer, founder of Sandefer Offshore, an oil exploration company. Sandefer has also created the Acton School of Business, a graduate business school in Austin, Texas, and with his wife, Laura Sandefer, the Acton Academy, a national network of private schools. A recent
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The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a membership society that hosts programs and publishes scientific studies in the United States. Established by a Congressional charter in 1863, NAS operates as an independent nonprofit organization that advises the federal government on scientific issues and conducts studies on its behalf.
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Nicholas “Nick” Hanauer is a progressive donor, venture capital investor, and political commentator. Hanauer is an activist for extreme increases in the minimum wage, a fervent financial supporter of gun control, and a multimillionaire jet-setter.
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Rahm Emanuel is an American politician who served as the 55th mayor of Chicago from 2011 through 2019.1 Emanuel has served in several senior positions in government, including Senior Advisor to President Bill Clinton,
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The Obama Foundation is a nonprofit organization formed in 2014, near the end of President Barack Obama’s second term in office, to press for liberal projects and to both oversee the design and construction of the Obama Presidential Center within Jackson Park in Chicago, Illinois. A federal review of
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The Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) is a left-of-center grantmaking organization with over $11 billion in assets. The Foundation conducts most of its grantmaking through donor-advised fund (DAF) accounts established with oversight from individual donors who can advise how their gifts are distributed for charitable purposes. SVCF has drawn criticism
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Earthworks is an environmentalist nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. that advocates for strict environmental regulations, particularly on the fuel and mining industries. Earthworks has opposed the use of zero carbon nuclear energy.
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The ClimateWorks Foundation is a left-of-center “pass-through” funding entity that distributes funds from donors to environmentalist advocacy groups around the world. Many of these nonprofits lobby for emissions taxes, restricting coal use, international climate treaties with strict enforcement mechanisms, and diminishing the use of cars.
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James E. Casey (1888-1983), the founder of United Parcel Service, and his family created the Annie E. Casey Foundation in 1948. When Casey died, the foundation received much of his estate, and the endowment doubled when, in 1999, UPS raised $5.47 billion from an initial public offering. The Annie E.
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Also see Blanche and Julian Robertson Family Foundation (nonprofit) The Robertson Foundation is a foundation created by hedge fund investor Julian H. Robertson, Jr. and his wife, Josie Robertson. It is not to be confused with the Robertson Foundation for Government, a nonprofit that is the successor to the Robertson Foundation,
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ProPublica is an investigative journalist organization which publishes reports on perceived and actual abuses of power by governments, businesses, and other entities. 1 Its database of 9.6 million tax filing 990 documents for non-profits is used frequently by
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Leland Fikes Foundation is a left-of-center grantmaking foundation based In Dallas, Texas that funds a variety of left-of-center advocacy groups in Texas and nationally. The foundation was founded in 1954 by Leland Fikes, a wealthy Texas oilman who died in 1966, and has since been operated by his descendants. The
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Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is a large left-of-center animal liberation and vegetarianism advocacy nonprofit. Founded in 1954, HSUS lobbies to end cruelty to animals and for an end to human use of animals for food and fiber.
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Herbert “Herb” Sandler was a banker and left-of-center philanthropist. Together with his wife Marion, who was his co-chief executive officer and co-board chair of his two major ventures (the Golden West Financial Corporation and its subsidiary, the World Savings Bank), Sandler popularized a lending tool called the adjustable-rate mortgage. This
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Educational Foundation of America (EFA) is a major left-of-center grant maker that funds environmentalist, educational, and voter-mobilization initiatives. EFA purports to be a family foundation that aims to create a society with “an inclusive democracy,” in which each person has “unrestricted access to full reproductive freedom” and lives on a
